conciliant

English

Adjective

conciliant (comparative more conciliant, superlative most conciliant)

1. Conciliatory.
   • 19C, Howard H. Brinton, Quaker Religious Thought: The Quaker Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, volume 1, number 1, Quaker Theological Discussion Group

     It is a conciliant authority, a joint authority expressed formatively and normatively through Bible, community, and Spirit

   • 1965, David Samuel Shwayder, The Stratification of Behaviour: A System of Definitions Propounded and Defended, Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 384:

     Conciliant with the strategy of this section, I would stress the following:

   • 2003 October, Sarah Stroud, Christine Tappolet, Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality, Oxford University Press, page 250:

     Sometimes our later acts will fit with our old reasons, because the new reasons rationalized by the old will justify only acts conciliant with the old. Other times, our acts will not be conciliant.

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• calcitonin

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.si.ljɑ̃/

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Participle

conciliant

1. present participle of concilier

Adjective

conciliant (feminine conciliante, masculine plural conciliants, feminine plural conciliantes)

1. conciliatory
2. manageable, tractable

Further reading

• “conciliant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

conciliant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of conciliō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French conciliant.

Adjective

conciliant m or n (feminine singular conciliantă, masculine plural concilianți, feminine and neuter plural conciliante)

1. conciliatory

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	conciliant		conciliantă		concilianți	conciliante
	definite	conciliantul		concilianta		concilianții	conciliantele
genitive- dative	indefinite	conciliant		conciliante		concilianți	conciliante
	definite	conciliantului		conciliantei		concilianților	conciliantelor